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I’m a Verbalist, Not a Blogger
by George Popstefanov on 09/10/2009 at 3:33 pm in Commentary, Observations, Within Range
With everything that is going in the industry and having the opportunity to go to several different conferences, you would think that I have plenty to say. The truth is that I am more of a verbalist (ver•bal•ist – One who favors words over ideas or substance) than a writer. My problem is that I can’t make my blogs fun and use football references, or talk about my experiences with a phone provider or make a correlation between shoes and online marketing. No, I can talk all day about using search queries reports for your keyword research, looking into webmaster tools to figure out keywords that you might want to add for PPC or utilizing Google Analytics to manage your PPC campaigns, but writing about it and making it fun – Forget about it!
Full StoryDead Men Tell No Tales, But Google Trends Sure Does
by George Popstefanov on 05/13/2009 at 4:54 pm in Commentary, Observations, Social Media, Within Range
Just when you thought the internet had had enough of pirates, the recent activity of those Somali scalawags has filled the sails of pirate-related searches. If we look into Yahoo! Buzz and Google Trends, it the term “Somali Pirates” is being searched 1200% more than in the past. Not surprisingly, Facebook has gone on the account with pirate talk, recently deciding to update their language platform with version 2 of English (Pirate).
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